"Polyglots and language creators...that Venn diagram is almost a circle."

In this episode, language creator David Peterson sat down with me to talk about language creation, language ownership, and the joy of it all. No other interview has had such an impact on me, the level of mastery in language creation was completely unclear to me.

Every single choice that you're making is an active choice. Nothing in a language has to be that way.

Here are just a few of the questions we discussed on this show.

And David also explained the phases language creators go through.

If you're fascinated by language invention and created languages after listening to this interview, I recommend David's own book "The Art of Language Invention". (see links below)

Thank you to David Peterson for this episode introduction.

Special Guest: David Peterson.

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Links:

• Utopian for Beginners | The New Yorker
• Conlanging film | Language Creation Society
• The Fluent Show: Top 5 Fictional Languages
• The Art Of Language Invention — on Hive, a UK book site to support bookshops
• The Art Of Language Invention — on Amazon UK